When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

What’s the matter with you, Penny? You’re not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and...

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death....

Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come tono harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods...

Every teacher are once a student, Every professional are once an amateur, Every rich are once a poor, Every motorist are once a learner, Every friend are once a stranger, Every ex are once a...

Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of...

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

. . . the only way to tell off an asshole was face-to-face and to look fantastic doing it. So, here she was, with perfect makeup, hair done in a riot of waves that had...

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to...

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

In irgendeinem abgelegenen Winkel des in zahllosen Sonnensystemen flimmernd ausgegossenen Weltalls, gab es einmal ein Gestirn, auf dem kluge Tiere das Erkennen erfanden. Es war die hochmütigste und verlogenste Minute der ‘Weltgeschichte’: aber doch nur...

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

It’s always the ‘others’ who are deceived.

Then the cow asked:”What is a mirror?””It is a hole in the wall,” said the cat. “You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal...

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

E un fenomen foarte des înt lnit. Dacă văd vreodată pe cineva care pare să aibă o părere foarte bună despre sine și se laudă fără încetare, știu de fiecare dată că undeva există un...

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Im Grunde sind diese Gedanken ganz ohne Bedeutung. Die Dingen geschehen eben und ich suche, wie Millionen Menschen vor mir, in ihnen einen Sinn, weil meine Eitelkeit nicht gestatten will, zuzugeben, daß der ganze Sinn...

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything

Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into the tool a vast, blind universe might use to perceive itself. If this...

We named the bar The Bar. “People will think we’re ironic instead of creatively bankrupt,” my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers – that the name was a joke no one...

Vanity might be a “sin” according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life’s allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

I’m so pretty, it’s hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

It can’t come down to a question of personal vanity.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine’s interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping the rare effort she had put into doing her hair was not entirely...

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it:...

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.

And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn’t possible.

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus,...

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and...

But a man’s beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman’s face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting...

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of “much cleverer” people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to...